Industrialisation and industrial history Books
University of Alabama Press Urbanism in the Preindustrial World Crosscultural Approaches
Book SynopsisA study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in pre-industrial times. It employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with, concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Sawdust in Your Pockets A History of the North
Book SynopsisProvides the first survey of North Carolina’s furniture industry from its cabinetmaking beginnings to its digital present. Historian Eric Medlin shows how the industry transitioned from high-quality, individual pieces to the affordable, mass-produced furniture, and discusses how competition, consolidation, and globalization challenged the industry.Trade ReviewSawdust in Your Pockets is a well-researched overview of an important component of North Carolina’s economic history, and it is the first such comprehensive study. This book fills an important gap in the historical literature, and I believe it will inspire future micro-studies of aspects of the state’s furniture industry." - Melissa Walker, author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories"I have been teaching North Carolina history for over twenty years, and it has always frustrated me that there is so little historical information on the state’s furniture industry out there. Furniture was one of the legs on North Carolina’s three-legged stool (along with tobacco and textiles) that made the state the most industrialized southern state and one of the most prosperous. There is both a need and a market for this book." - Dan Pierce, author of Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
£35.72
University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh and the Appalachians
Book SynopsisThe book assesses how Pittsburgh deindustrialization over the past decades has posed both opportunities and challenges for the city and surrounding tri-state area.
£52.14
University of Pittsburgh Press Big Steel
Book SynopsisBig Steel is the first comprehensive history of the company at the center of America's twentieth-century industrial life—the United States Steel Corporation. Granted unprecedented access to the U.S. Steel archives, Warren tells the compelling history of this business.Trade ReviewProfessor Warren brings forward a clear, well-argued and eminently fascinating account of the creation, growth, decline, and rebirth of US Steel, and does it in a way that I think will appeal not only to the academic experts, but will have a broad crossover appeal to general readers, and certainly to the large ‘business book’ market."" - John N. Ingham, University of Toronto""Warren brings forward a clear- well-argued and eminently fascinating account of the creation, growth and decline, and rebirth of U.S. Steel."" - Western Pa. Genealogical Society Quarterly
£46.55
University of Pittsburgh Press Brezhnevs Folly
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly account of BAM (the Baikal-Amur Railway), Russia's most ambitious public construction project to be attempted in the final decades leading up to the collapse of the USSR. This is a rich social history based on a combination of original scholarly research and interviews with many of those who worked on BAM.Trade Review“Ward’s excellent history charts the rise and fall of a vast and impractical construction project. . . . Imparts both meaning and insight to everyday life in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. . . . Ward excels at peopling BAM’s construction sites with a fascinating cast of belligerent, disorganized workers who drink, steal, worry about the environment, . . . and dream of amassing capital rather than building socialism. . . . A fine, readable work on a neglected topic that offers insights not just into the construction of BAM, but into the larger realm of youth culture and work culture under Brezhnev.” —Technology and Culture“This excellent monograph details the construction of one of the largest public works projects of all time, the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railway. . . . The last instance of ‘Soviet gigantomania’ and a pet project of Leonid Brezhnev. . . BAM was envisioned as a demonstration of ideological fervor and Soviet prowess. . . . In fact, BAM was a disaster from start to finish. . . . Brezhnev’s Folly benefits from the author’s thorough familiarity with rich archival materials as well as personal interviews. . . . It deserves the attention of every specialist in modern Russian history.” —The Russian Review“Ward’s important study successfully situates BAM within Brezhnev’s ‘developed socialism,’ and it indicates the bankruptcy of late Soviet efforts to demonstrate the glories of enlightened rule. Important for specialists on Soviet politics and history, and more generally for historians of technology.” —Slavic Review“A fascinating case study of youth, gender, ethnicity, and an emergent ecological consciousness in Brezhnev's USSR. This book also focuses on the near farce of an out-of-touch effort by the Soviet state to have BAM's builders inhabit a visionary future while living in a squalid present. This disconnect between officialdom's happy propaganda and the brutal reality of everyday life on BAM validates Havel's insistence that late communism can be reduced to mendacity incarnate. An important work that should become a classic in the field.” —Matthew Payne, Emory University“An interesting and important analysis. . . Scholars and students will discover much with which to argue, but at the same time an accessible, unusual, and well-documented work of history.” —The Journal of Modern History
£42.63
CABI Publishing Organic Farming
Book SynopsisBeginning as a small protest to the industrialization of agriculture in the 1920s, organic farming has become a significant force in agricultural policy, marketing, and research. No longer dismissed as unscientific and counterproductive, organic techniques are now taken seriously by farmers, consumers, scientists, food processors, marketers, and regulatory agencies in much of the world. Organic farming is both dynamic and forward-looking but is also rooted in tradition. It is these traditions that can provide valuable starting points in debates over how organic farming should meet new challenges such as globalization, the emergence of new production techniques, and growing concern over equity and social justice in agriculture. Complementing general discussions with case histories of important organic institutions in various countries, this comprehensive discussion is the first to explore the development of organic agriculture. This title is now also available in papTable of ContentsPart 1: Origins and Principles Chapter 1: What Explains the Rise of Organic Farming? Chapter 2: The Origins of Organic Farming Chapter 3: Organic Values Chapter 4: The Science of Organic Farming Chapter 5: The Evolution of Organic Practice Part 2: Policies and Markets Chapter 6: The Development of Governmental Support for Organic Farming in Europe Chapter 7: The Organic Market Chapter 8: Development of Standards for Organic Farming Part 3: Organizations and Institutions Chapter 9: IFOAM and the History of the International Organic Movement Chapter 10: The Soil Association Chapter 11: Ecological Farmers Association and the Success of Swedish Organic Agriculture Chapter 12: MAPO and the Argentinian Organic Movement Chapter 13: NASAA and Organic Agriculture in Australia Chapter 14: FiBL and Organic Research in Switzerland Chapter 15: The Organic Trade Association Part 4: Challenges Chapter 16: A Look toward the Future Part 1: Origins and Principles Chapter 1: What Explains the Rise of Organic Farming? Chapter 2: The Origins of Organic Farming Chapter 3: Organic Values Chapter 4: The Science of Organic Farming Chapter 5: The Evolution of Organic Practice Part 2: Policies and Markets Chapter 6: The Development of Governmental Support for Organic Farming in Europe Chapter 7: The Organic Market Chapter 8: Development of Standards for Organic Farming Part 3: Organizations and Institutions Chapter 9: IFOAM and the History of the International Organic Movement Chapter 10: The Soil Association Chapter 11: Ecological Farmers Association and the Success of Swedish Organic Agriculture Chapter 12: MAPO and the Argentinian Organic Movement Chapter 13: NASAA and Organic Agriculture in Australia Chapter 14: FiBL and Organic Research in Switzerland Chapter 15: The Organic Trade Association Part 4: Challenges Chapter 16: A Look toward the Future
£103.82
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi From Backwoods to Boardrooms The Rise of
Book SynopsisIn the past 100-plus years, forestland ownerships have gone through two structural changes: the accumulation of industrial timberlands between 1900s and 1980s and the transformation of industrial timberlands to institutional ownerships afterwards. This book is about the history and economics of these two structural changes.
£33.71
Cornell University Press Native Soil
Book SynopsisLocated in a region geologically blessed with nutrient-rich black soil, DeKalb County is known for it's agricultural prosperity. This book explains how a group of farmers attempted to cope with the problems they faced as productive farming required scientific and technological advances. It is for those concerned with America's agricultural past.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and exceptionally well written. * Agricultural History Review *Refreshing... meticulousy researched and written in a way that allows the reader to watch the story unfold with a sense of immediacy. Native Soil is an important contribution to the history of both the Midwest and American agriculture. * Journal of illinois history *Not to take the opportunity to read Eric Mogren's Native Soil is to make a significant error, particularly for agricultural historians, historians of the Midwest, and even generalist scholars of the American experience. * THe annals of iowa *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction 1 A New Era: The Roots of the Farm Bureau Movement 2 The "Soil Improvers" 3 War and Recession: Early Trials for the Soil Improvement Association 4 Hard Times: The Farm Bureau during Depression and War 5 Postwar Years: The Farm Bureau at High Tide 6 The Future Appendix: Former DeKalb County Farm Bureau Officials Notes Bibliography Index
£20.89
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press I Will Live for Both of Us A History of Colonialism Uranium Mining and Inuit Resistance
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Liverpool University Press Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Ninete
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Liverpool University Press The Globalisation of the Oceans Containerisation
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Broadcasting in the United States
Book SynopsisThis powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field''s important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of the 20th century, and focuses on the aesthetics of programming over the years Surveys four key broadcasting periods from 1921 to 1996, drawing on a range of new sources to examine recent changes in the field, including coverage of the recent impact of cable TV and home video Includes new data from collections at the Library of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting Ideal for anyone seeking a readable history of the field, offering the most current coverage available Trade Review"The book is wonderfully punctuated with rare photographs from the Library of American Broadcasting. The organization easily guides the reader through the narrative. A lot of reference source material comes from the periodicals and publications of the time. In addition to the rich collection at the Maryland Library of American Broadcasting collection, Gomery ventured into other national archives." (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, September 2010) “The book remains distinctive on several levels. It is a somewhat provocative survey that in 357 pages effectively renders broadcasting’s first sixty years.” (Journalism History, Spring 2009) "Douglas Gomery is a master of the historical archive. This is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable book, written in a very accessible and entertaining style that holds the attention of readers, while also providing new information and documentation for scholars. A must read for media historians and media history courses." ( Richard Butsch, author of The Making of American Audiences) “Gomery [is] a leading historian … .Here’s a history worth reading. Producers, undergraduates in media studies, and fans of media history should be avid readers." ( Television Quarterly)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Preface: Why a History of Broadcasting in the USA? ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Broadcasting’s Beginning: The Big Bang 1 Part I: The Network Radio Era, 1921–1950 1 1. Industrial Innovation and Diffusion: The Radio Networks 13 2. Radio’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact: The First Mass Medium 38 3. The Development of a New Aesthetic: Sounds 71 Part II: Transition, 1945–1957 105 4. TV Replaces Radio in the Living Room 107 5. Radio Reinvents Itself: Top 40 and Beyond 142 Part III: Network Television Dominates, 1958–1982 165 6. CBS, NBC, and ABC Covering the USA 167 7. Network TV’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact 197 8. The Genre Machine: From Maverick to M*A*S*H 231 Part IV: Contemporary History, 1982–1996 279 9. Radio: The FM Era 281 10. Television: Remote Control Paradise 299 Epilogue: Still a Broadcasting Nation: 1996 and into the Future 338 Appendix: Sorry, Wrong Number 346 Index 353
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Broadcasting in the United States
Book SynopsisThis powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field''s important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of the 20th century, and focuses on the aesthetics of programming over the years Surveys four key broadcasting periods from 1921 to 1996, drawing on a range of new sources to examine recent changes in the field, including coverage of the recent impact of cable TV and home video Includes new data from collections at the Library of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting Ideal for anyone seeking a readable history of the field, offering the most current coverage available Trade Review"The book is wonderfully punctuated with rare photographs from the Library of American Broadcasting. The organization easily guides the reader through the narrative. A lot of reference source material comes from the periodicals and publications of the time. In addition to the rich collection at the Maryland Library of American Broadcasting collection, Gomery ventured into other national archives." (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, September 2010) "Douglas Gomery is a master of the historical archive. This is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable book, written in a very accessible and entertaining style that holds the attention of readers, while also providing new information and documentation for scholars. A must read for media historians and media history courses." Richard Butsch, author of The Making of American Audiences “At once more expansive and finely detailed than almost any other book out there on the subject, this work will appeal to both experts in the field and those new to this history. A "must have" for media historians." Susan Murray, New York University “Gomery [is] a leading historian … .Here’s a history worth reading. Producers, undergraduates in media studies, and fans of media history should be avid readers." Television QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Preface: Why a History of Broadcasting in the USA? ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Broadcasting’s Beginning: The Big Bang 1 Part I: The Network Radio Era, 1921–1950 1 1. Industrial Innovation and Diffusion: The Radio Networks 13 2. Radio’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact: The First Mass Medium 38 3. The Development of a New Aesthetic: Sounds 71 Part II: Transition, 1945–1957 105 4. TV Replaces Radio in the Living Room 107 5. Radio Reinvents Itself: Top 40 and Beyond 142 Part III: Network Television Dominates, 1958–1982 165 6. CBS, NBC, and ABC Covering the USA 167 7. Network TV’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact 197 8. The Genre Machine: From Maverick to M*A*S*H 231 Part IV: Contemporary History, 1982–1996 279 9. Radio: The FM Era 281 10. Television: Remote Control Paradise 299 Epilogue: Still a Broadcasting Nation: 1996 and into the Future 338 Appendix: Sorry, Wrong Number 346 Index 353
£37.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Making Tobacco Bright
Book SynopsisHow did Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco come to dominate the industry?In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation. Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of these varieties, Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco. First grown in the inland Piedmont along the VirginiaNorth Carolina border, Bright Tobacco now grows all over the world, primarily because of its uniqueand easily replicatedcultivation and curing methods. Hahn traces the evolution of technologies in a variety of regulatory and cultural environments to reconstruct how Bright Tobacco became, and remains to this day, a leading commodity in the global tobacco industry. This study asks not what effect tobacco had on the world market, but how that market shaped tobacco into types that served specific purposes and became distinguishable from onTrade ReviewA discerning analysis of not only how a commodity—tobacco—was shaped and defined by technology, but also how technology can be influenced by a commodity . . . This interesting, thorough history will appeal to readers and researchers alike. Highly recommended.—ChoiceThoroughly researched, engaging, and enjoyable . . . An excellent first book.—Environmental HistoryStrongly argued and deeply researched.—Agricultural HistoryHahn has produced an important book, thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, that deserves a wide audience among American historians.—Journal of American HistoryHahn has written an ambitious book that examines how Americans created a commodity whose roots were densely—perhaps inextricably—tangled with those of the growing nation. Her work deserves a broad readership among students of southern agriculture, economic history, and the history of science and technology.—Journal of Southern HistoryAn impressive book, one that rewrites conventional understandings of tobacco as a crop, a commodity, and a symbol. From Jamestown to contemporary southern fields, Hahn tells an old story in an entirely fresh way.—Technology and CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionProloguePart I1. Making Tobacco Virginian2. Growing the Business3. Death and TaxesPart II4. Ripeness Is All5. Inventing Tradition6. StabilizationAppendixNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£17.58
Temple University Press,U.S. Dangerous Trade
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their controlTrade Review"No other work addresses industrial hazards with such geographic breadth and historical depth. Together, the essays in Dangerous Trade offer a damning indictment of capitalism's impact on working people and the environments in which they have labored and lived. Just as importantly, Dangerous Trade also makes a compelling case regarding the role of workers' movements in improving public health in and beyond the workplace. This book, in short, offers something new to a range of practitioners and academics." -Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder "The authors' backgrounds run the gamut from anthropology to medicine, so the authors offer diverse perspectives on both the history of industrial pollution and the current state of these problems across the globe. The nations discussed range from developing countries like Malaysia, Nigeria, and Mexico to more developed nations like France, Spain, and Italy. The array of problems considered is also broad, including, for example, rubber plantations, liquefied natural gas, oil, asbestos, and mercury. This book is a fine account of some international problems in industrial health and is especially valuable for undergraduate collections that support environmental programs. Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -CHOICE "[A] compelling collection of essays that provides integral groundwork for understanding our contemporary globalized industrial hazards... These essays show the challenges confronting our contemporary globalized industrial hazard situation including scientific and lay knowledge production and the translation of resistance to regulation... Together these essays provide an important foundation for looking at industrial hazards on a larger geographic scope and through a wider interdisciplinary lens." -Environmental HistoryTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: From Dangerous Trades to Trade in Dangers: Toward an Industrial Hazard History of the Present / Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling Part I: The Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century Creating Industrial Hazards in the Developing World 1. Rubber Plantation Workers, Work Hazards, and Health in Colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 / Amarjit Kaur 2. Work, Home, and Natural Environments: Health and Safety in the Mexican Oil Industry, 1900-1938 / Myrna Santiago Knowing and Controlling in the Developed World 3. Global Markets and Local Conflicts in Mercury Mining: Industrial Restructuring and Workplace Hazards at the Almaden Mines in the Early Twentieth Century / Alfredo Menendez-Navarro 4. Trade, Spores, and the Culture of Disease: Attempts to Regulate Anthrax in Britain and Its International Trade, 1875-1930 / Tim Carter and Joseph Melling 5. Rayon, Carbon Disulfide, and the Emergence of the Multinational Corporation in Occupational Disease / Paul D. Blanc Part II: The Middle to the Late Twentieth Century New Transfers of Production 6. Shipping the "Next Prize": The Trade in Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria to Mexico / Anna Zalik 7. New Hazards and Old Disease: Lead Contamination and the Uruguayan Battery Industry / Daniel E. Renfrew New Knowledge and Coalitions 8. Objective Collectives? Transnationalism and "Invisible Colleges" in Occupational and Environmental Health from Collis to Selikoff / Joseph Melling and Christopher Sellers 9. Bread and Poison: The Story of Labor Environmentalism in Italy, 1968-1998 / Stefania Barca 10. A New Environmental Turn? How the Environment Came to the Rescue of Occupational Health: Asbestos in France c. 1970-1995 / Emmanuel Henry New Arenas of Contest 11. A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Making Policy-Relevant Environmental Health Knowledge in Italian and U.S. Chemical Regions / Barbara Allen 12. Pesticide Regulation, Citizen Action, and Toxic Trade: The Role of the Nation-State in the Transnational History of DBCP / Susanna Rankin Bohme 13. Turning the Tide: The Struggle for Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases and the Banning of Asbestos / Barry Castleman and Geoffrey Tweedale Conclusion / Joseph Melling and Christopher Sellers, with Barry Castleman Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Militant Minority
Book SynopsisMilitant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left.In the late 1950s, half of B.C.'s workers belonged to unions, but the promise of postwar collective bargaining spawned disillusionment tied to inflation and automation. A new working class that was educated, white collar, and increasingly rebellious shifted the locus of activism from the Communist Party and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to the newly formed New Democratic Party, which was elected in 1972. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedenTrade Review'Militant Minority is a well-researched and well-documented look at British Columbia's labour movement and its impact on the political landscape during a time of great change... Isitt is not an apologist for the left, for organized labour or anyone else. He tells the story in a matter-of-fact way, free of spin or political message. That neutrality is its strength: It is valuable to all readers, regardless of political points of view, because it provides insight and background into a critical time in our history.' -- David Obee , Times Colonist, December 24/2011
£30.60
University of Toronto Press Militant Minority
Book SynopsisGrounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance.
£56.10
The University of North Carolina Press A History of the Book in America Volume 5
Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization, and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the patterns of consolidation and diversification established earlier. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of bookselling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as schools, libraries, book clubs, self-help programs, and collectors' societies--receive imaginative scrutiny as well. The Enduring Book demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher, that multiplicity continues to define Amer
£41.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Goodwill to Grunge A History of Secondhand
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Goodwill to Grunge A History of Secondhand
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Hamlet Fire A Tragic Story of Cheap Food
Book SynopsisUsing oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Bryant Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
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New York University Press Coal Cages Crisis
Book SynopsisHow prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America's hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, whTrade ReviewAgainst the many reductionist, exploitative, and degrading accounts of Appalachia, this book reveals how important it is to understand the region’s drive toward prisons and jails as part of a larger history, geography, and narrative of continuous extraction and structural crisis, one that was never inevitable but socially reproduced through carceral investments. Coal, Cages, Crisis is essential reading in this moment of reckoning, proving our analyses of racial capital in the rural hinterlands is foundational to struggles in the movement against prisons everywhere. -- Michelle Brown, co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular CultureThrough the churn of extraction and profiteering, disposal and human sacrifice, the mountains of Appalachia have become a kind of national sacrifice zone, home to coal mines, garbage dumps, and cages. Judah Schept’s brilliant book nests rigorously local Appalachian history within the global system of racial capitalism that is devouring the planet. As jails and prisons proliferate across the coalfields, Schept tells us what was there before so we will remember to ask that crucial abolitionist question—what might be there instead? -- Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison AmericaJudah Schept sketches a fascinating topography of class war and the carceral state in Appalachia. He boldly shifts focus from the criminal policies and physical prisons of the region to the infrastructures of extraction and disposal that have facilitated mass incarceration. This imaginative interdisciplinary study will be a critical resource for scholars and organizers as well as for pundits trying to make sense of Appalachia’s now mythologized ‘white working class.’ -- Christina Heatherton, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives MatterCoal, Cages, Crisis is a model of carceral geography that combines investigative journalism, unabashed activism, and multi-layered analysis. Jill Frank’s stark photography illuminates a bleak landscape, while Schept excavates its buried past. -- Tony Platt, author of Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United StatesThe primary insight guiding Coal, Cages, and Crisis is that the carceral facility is part of an ensemble of social relations extending far beyond its walls, in networks of local, state, and federal punishment, the global landscape of commodity exchange, and even the unique historical moment in which it exists. As Schept deftly demonstrates, the site selection, construction, staffing, filling, and subsequent management of prisons and jails is not simply the narrow domain of the misnamed ‘justice system,’ reflecting its needs, nor are prisons and punishment regimes simply deployed in response to changing levels of ‘crime,’ as conservative criminologists argue. Instead, understanding why prisons are built, and filled, requires a close look at local patterns of employment, relations of private property, histories of structural racism, and the political and cultural arenas in which regimes of prison construction and ‘tough on crime’ policies alike are fought out … Time and again, Coal, Cages, Crisis strives to communicate that mass incarceration is not natural or inevitable, and depicts plenty of locals who prove that another way of life is not only possible, but in demand. * The Brooklyn Rail *Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept links prison growth to other sites in the Central Appalachian landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators. He concludes that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. * Law and Social Inquiry *Through this interdisciplinary study of the rural prison boom, Schept provides an invaluable state of the field in carceral and Appalachian studies, using the lens of racial capitalism to interpret the region’s complex identity. He also gives an innovative model for the use of blended oral and archival historical methods to study deep historical processes that manifest in the recent past. * The Journal of Southern History *Prisons have proven to be unsafe and costly to operate and, as a result, many in this region have been closing at a rapid rate.…Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- E. Smith, University of Delaware * CHOICE *
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University of Toronto Press Learning behind Bars
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.Trade Review"Learning behind Bars is an interesting, informative and scholarly work." -- Gerry Moriarty * Irish Times *"..with its chronological panorama, and the geographical and organisational range of its interview partners, Reinisch’s book offers a valuable perspective on the experiences of republican prisoners at the periphery of the movement… his book is of undoubted value for scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and, more broadly, for analysts of incarceration and the internal dynamics of militant social movements." -- Jack Hepworth, St Catherine’s College, Oxford * Oral History Journal *"This is an important account of the role of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners who were imprisoned on both sides of the Irish border who were instrumental in starting the critical debate that ultimately contributed to resolving the Northern Ireland conflict through the 1994 Provisional (IRA) ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998." -- Joshua Sinai * Perspectives on Terrorism *"Drawing on the experience of learners and employing a framework which enables generalisations to be made from the particularities of Ireland, Dieter Reinisch makes a powerful case for the value of education in prisons for prisoners, prisons, and the wider society." -- Daniel Weinbren, Open University * Journal of Prison Education and Reentry *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Irish Prison Arena: Republican Prisoners and the Northern Ireland Conflict 2. “Portlaoise is an example for this”: Portlaoise Prison Protests, 1973–7 3. “No prisoner has the right to advance the education of another”: Education in Portlaoise Prison 4. The Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann: Sinn Féin in Portlaoise Prison, 1978–86 5. “He was just rhyming off pages of it”: Internment and the Brownie Papers, 1971–7 6. Marxist Esperanto and Socialism in Cell 26: Reading, Thinking, and Writing in the H-Blocks, 1983–9 7. “It's only when you look back …”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Peace Process in the 1990s Conclusion: An Irish Century of Camps Interview Partners Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The UAWs Southern Gamble
Book SynopsisThe UAW''s Southern Gamble is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto Workers'' efforts to organize foreign vehicle plants (Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen) in the American South since 1989, an era when union membership declined precipitously. Stephen J. Silvia chronicles transnational union cooperation between the UAW and its counterparts in Brazil, France, Germany, and Japan and documents the development of employer strategies that have proven increasingly effective at thwarting unionization.Silvia shows that when organizing, unions must now fight on three fronts: at the worksite; in the corporate boardroom; and in the political realm. The UAW''s Southern Gamble makes clear that the UAW''s failed campaigns in the South can teach hard-won lessons about challenging the structural and legal roadblocks to union participation and effectively organizing workers within and beyond the auto industry.
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Stanford University Press Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing
Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet
£86.40
Stanford University Press Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing
Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet
£23.39
Stanford University Press Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the
Book SynopsisFrom 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world. Trade Review"Historian Wu has written a brilliant and original cultural history of industrialization in late Qing China . . . Thoroughly grounded in the archives and research in both Chinese and German sources (no mean feat), the book examines the powerful interactions of Chinese and Western entrepreneurs and Qing and Western officials in creating an industrial China . . . Highly recommended" -- J. Roger * CHOICE *"Shellen Wu's new book is a fascinating and timely contribution to the histories of China . . . Empires of Coal looks carefully at the importance of mining [...] to the political economy of late imperial China . . . It will be required reading for anyone interested in the entanglement of science, technology, and modernity in global history." -- Carla Nappi * New Books in East Asian Studies *"Refreshing and subtle, this book's engagement with issues of imperialism, China's relationship to European science, and environmental history provides a fascinating reminder of the tight linkages between them all." -- Joanna Waley-Cohen * NYU Shanghai *"This book narrates how, from the 1860s to the 1910s, China entered into a modern, industrializing world driven by fossil fuels. The topic could not carry greater contemporary relevance for China and the world, and only a few other historians have written on it in the past." -- Micah Muscolino * Oxford University *"Wu's study...places China's nineteenth-century development in a global context and adds comparative value to its historical experience." -- Joanna Waley-Cohen * The English Historical Review *"[An] interesting and important set of insights into the history of coal mining, coal imperialism, and the science and political economy of coal in China....[This study] adds a fascinating and novel layer of analysis of German imperialism and engineering at work in China...that has been missing in many of the wider discussions of imperialism and global transformations during the time period." -- Jack Patrick Hayes * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal chapter abstractIn order to understand how and why a momentous change of the Chinese worldview occurred in the late nineteenth century, chapter 1 begins with a discussion of pre-modern forms of geological knowledge in China 2Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Imperialism chapter abstractChapter Two examines Richthofen's contributions to Chinese views of its own mineral resources. Richthofen's career spanned the zenith of European colonial expansion in the nineteenth century, concomitant with the golden age of the railroads and steamers. His academic work on China connected the geography of the eastern seaboard to the Central Asian landmass. Yet his enduring legacy in China remains his observations of Chinese mines and estimates of Chinese mineral potential. 3Lost and Found in Translation: Geology, Mining, and the Search for Wealth and Power chapter abstractChapter Three discusses missionary translations of geology works in the nineteenth century. In the act of translation, geology became further entangled with the role of science in imperialism and the wealth and power of the West. Nineteenth century missionary translations of science in the treaty ports tell only a small part of the story. Focusing on the deficiencies of these translations would only miss the greater accomplishment of these foreign and Chinese translators of Western science texts as cultural intermediaries. These late nineteenth century translations introduced the field of geology to the Chinese public, but in the tumultuous political and economic environment of the late Qing period it was mining and control over mining rights that added urgency to the adoption of modern geology. 4Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886-1914 chapter abstractChapter Four examines the large-scale modern enterprises opened in the interior by the Chinese themselves, including influential government figures such as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. This chapter focuses on the people who made possible the expansion of the first modern Chinese industries while also promoting European influence on China's future development—engineers who carried their skills from technical schools and mining academies in Europe to the far reaches of empire. The German engineers who began working for Chinese industries transitioned easily when Germany acquired a leasehold in Shandong province in 1898. 5Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights (1895-1911) chapter abstractChapter Five examines the late Qing reform of mining laws and the nation-wide movement to reclaim mining rights. In particular, this chapter uses as a case study the example of two German mining companies in Shandong during the colonial period (1898-1914), and the Chinese response to the foreign scramble for mining concessions. Like the geological surveys taking place across the globe during nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mining regulations became a point of tension between colonizers and the colonized. The Chinese promulgation of mining regulations, based on Japanese and European precedents, demonstrate that by the last years of the Qing dynasty, they had joined the ranks of nations that viewed mineral resources as the key to wealth and power. 6Geology in the Age of Imperialism chapter abstractChapter Six examines continuities and changes in Chinese views on mining from the imperial period through the Republican era. During the late Qing period, control over natural resources became a symbol of sovereignty against foreign encroachment. The study of geology became a means of resistance against imperialism. In the Chinese discourse the positivist views of Western geology in this period transformed into a matter of anti-imperialist struggle with strong social Darwinian undertones. Republican era geologists actively tried to construct a history of geology motivated by Han nationalism, with the efforts of the late-Qing period largely erased from their revision. 7Epilogue chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the implications of the book and its significance for the literature on Chinese industrialization and modern Chinese history.
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Stanford University Press Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the
Book SynopsisCompleted in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of movement—voluntary and forced, intended and unintended, on different scales and in different directions—among Iranian diplomats, tribesmen, migrant laborers, technocrats, railway workers, tourists and pilgrims, as well as European imperial officials alike. Iran in Motion tells the hitherto unexplored stories of these individuals as they experienced new levels of mobility. Drawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues, and memoirs, as well as American, British, Danish, and Iranian archival materials, Mikiya Koyagi traces contested imaginations and practices of mobility from the conception of a trans-Iranian railway project during the nineteenth-century global transport revolution to its early years of operation on the eve of Iran's oil nationalization movement in the 1950s. Weaving together various individual experiences, this book considers how the infrastructural megaproject reoriented the flows of people and goods. In so doing, the railway project simultaneously brought the provinces closer to Tehran and pulled them away from it, thereby constantly reshaping local, national, and transnational experiences of space among mobile individuals.Trade Review"Amid the recent transnational turn in Middle East Studies, Iran in Motion is a subtle treatment of the unintended consequences of the Trans-Iranian Railway project. Mikiya Koyagi reveals the centrifugal forces unleashed by a project that was designed to bind a nation together."—Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles"Iran in Motion exemplifies the gains of approaching modern Iran not through the lens of methodological statism but with a feel for state and non-state actors alike. The Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi shows, made Iran both more fragmented and more homogeneous. A fascinating read."—Cyrus Schayegh, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva"With fresh insights drawn from a wealth of new archival materials, Mikiya Koyagi transports us through the various stations that dotted Iran's path to modernity. Much more than a narrative of the railway project, Iran in Motion reveals a deep understanding of the mobility networks that connected and divided Middle Eastern communities. A groundbreaking book."—Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania"Iran in Motion is a welcome addition to our understanding of technological modernization in the Middle East. The book sits at the intersection of the modern history of Iran and mobility studies... Koyagi tactfully moves from macro to micro, and the other way around, to make sense of nuances within the big picture. Iran in Motion appeals to general readers who seek non-Eurocentric histories of technology, but also, to scholars who are interested in the local and transnational histories of infrastructure and mobility."—Samin Rashidbeigi, Technology and Culture"Iran in Motion is a model of social and labor history, well sourced in the ample Persian-language material...Highly recommended."—P. Clawson, CHOICE"[Koyagi's] work matter-of-factly integrates Iranian studies scholarship from Japanese academia, giving anglophone (and Persophone) students rare access to content of which we have been ignorant or neglectful. The result is a master narrative of social transformation in modern Iran composed of a mosaic of distinct episodes, each adding color and clarity to the bigger picture."—Camron Michael Amin, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Building a Transimperial Infrastructure 2. The Road to Salvation 3. Nationalizing the Railway 4. Redirecting Mobilities 5. Death on the Persian Corridor 6. Workers of the Victory Bridge 7. Traveling Citizens Conclusion
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital:
Book SynopsisAn innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these new studies are rooted in the recognition of Africa's dynamic, expansive, and productive informal sector. While this book focuses on one of West Africa's earliest large-scale industries, namely the Wassa gold mines in the southwest Gold Coast, it is not solely concerned with the traditional working class. Rather, it explores the plurality oflabor relations that characterized the mining concessions during the period 1879 to 1909, including the presence of migrants from various parts of West Africa as well as casual and tributary laborers, both male and female. In capturing the phenomenon of labor mobility as it played out in Wassa, Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital presents one of the fullest accounts of the labor agents who regularly brought groups of migrant laborers to the mines. The narrative discusses these agents' means of employment and roles in the informalization and indentureship of labor; in addition, it explores the regional dynamics of the recruitment machinery and confronts issues of coercion and choice. Scholars interested in African history, global labor history, economic history, and women's work in Africa will find much of value in this innovative study. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen is aResearch Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Marie-Heim Vögtlin Grant) in the history department of the University of Basel.Trade ReviewThis is an important book, which helps to recast a seemingly well-discussed theme (the two gold booms in the southern interior of the Gold Coast) into a fresh, well-structured discussion of labour recruitment and labour organization. * SWISS HISTORY REVIEW *Provides a number of important insights into the global labour history of imperial gold mining in Wassa, as well as in a wider West African context... [An] comprehensive, informative and well-researched study is recommended for public and private libraries, and especially for historians and experts of migratory studies, mining industry and labour relations. * GHANA JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES *Cassandra Mark-Thiesen delivers a readable and insightful study of African-run labor recruitment schemes in colonial Ghana's emerging mining industry. * CONNECTIONS *Mark-Thiesen digs up a rich historical archive that enriches our understanding of the dynamic history of labour in the Gold Coast. * LSE REVIEW OF BOOKS *Cassandra Mark-Thiesen's Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital gives readers a window into the lives of the wide variety of African workers and entrepreneurs that journeyed to the Wassa gold mines and the port city of Sekondi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her 'labor centered' approach will be invaluable to historians of colonial mining economies. * IJAHS *By deepening our understanding of the actors and institutions involved in mobilizing labor after the outlawing of slavery in the Gold Coast in 1874, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen sheds light on the economic, political, and sociocultural factors that motivated people from within and beyond the Gold Coast to work in the Wassa mines. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Prospectors, Politicians and the Question of "Progress": The First and Second Gold Boom in Wassa Labor Recruitment in the Nineteenth Century: The Place of Practicality Disrupted Recruitment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Women, Whites, and other Labor Agents Government Strategies for Assisting the Mines Labor Agents, Chiefs and Officials, 1905 to 1909: The Incorporation of the Northern Territories' Labor Reserve Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Texas A & M University Press Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company
Book SynopsisOn July 12, 1964, in a momentous decision, the National Labor Relations Board decertified the racially segregated Independent Metal Workers Union as the collective bargaining agent at Houston's mammoth Hughes Tool Company. The unanimous decision ending nearly fifty years of Jim Crow unionism at the company marked the first ruling in the Labor Board's history that racial discrimination by a union violated the National Labor Relations Act and was therefore illegal. This ruling was for black workers the equivalent of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in the area of education. Botson traces the Jim Crow unionism of the company and the efforts of black union activists to bring civil rights issues into the workplace. His analysis clearly demonstrates that without federal intervention, workers at Hughes Tool would never have been able to overcome management's opposition to unionization and to racial equality. Drawing on interviews with many of the principals, as well as extensive mining of company and legal archives, Botson's study ""captures a moment in time when a segment of Houston's working-class seized the initiative and won economic and racial justice in their work place.
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Texas A & M University Press Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers
Book SynopsisCowboy spurs are a pure form of American folk art. Like the cowboy himself, the way spurs developed was molded by their use and the environment of the range, along with a generous dose of individualism and pride. Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers tells for the first time the fascinating story of this western art and the artisans who professional historians, and westerners and valuable reference for identifying spurs used by riders of Texas and the Southwest. A visit with contemporary spur maker Jerry Lindley, with pictures of him at work, traces the process and mechanics of hand forging spurs and decorating them by the overlay method. Individual chapters are devoted to the most prominent makers of cowboy spursmanufacturers Buermann and North & Judd, the spur and bit companies of Crockett, Shipley, and Kelly, and hometown blacksmiths such as Bianchi, Causey, and the Boone clan. In lively detail their histories unfold, along with helpful descriptions of their techniques and most representative spurs. Eighty-five black-and-white photographs and twelve color plates lavishly illustrate the spurs and their makers. An appendix lists many other artisans, past and present, with the locations of their shops and the identifying characteristics of their products. This book will become a standard reference for students, historians, and general readers alikefor everyone who values the important contribution of the cowboy to our cultural heritage and of the blacksmith who shaped the cowboy's badge of honor, his spurs.
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Purdue University Press Planting the Seeds of Hope: Indiana County
Book SynopsisThe Great Depression of the 1930s nearly brought the agricultural community to a standstill. As markets went into an economic freefall, farmers who had suffered through a post–World War I economic depression in the 1920s would now struggle to produce crops, livestock, and other commodities that could return more than the cost to produce them. In Indiana, the county agents of the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service saw this desperation firsthand. As they looked into the worried faces of the people they were asked to assist, the trust they had worked to build in their communities during the previous two decades would be put to the test. Throughout the painful years of the Great Depression, the county agents would stand side by side with Hoosier farmers, relying on science-based advice and proven strategies to help them produce more bushels per acre, more pigs per litter, more gallons of milk per cow, and more eggs per chicken. Then, as the decade drew to a close, the start of World War II in Europe soon placed farmers on the frontlines at home, producing the agricultural commodities needed in the United States and in war-torn locations abroad. The federal government quickly called on county agents to push farmers to meet historic production quotas—not an easy task with farm machinery, tires, and fuel rationed, and a severe labor shortage resulting from farm workers being drafted for military service or opting for higher-paying jobs in factories. Using the observations and reports of county agents, Planting the Seeds of Hope offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to live through these historic events in rural Indiana. The agents' own words and numerous accompanying photographs provide a one-of-a-kind perspective that brings their stories and those of the agricultural community they served to life at a pivotal time in American history.Table of Contents Part 1: Pioneering a New Field of Work (1887–1928) 1 Neither the Agent nor His Farmer-Constituents Knew Very Much About What to Expect of One Another Part 2: Outlasting the Great Depression (1929–1939) 2 The Shattering, Sledge Hammer Economic Blows of the Depression 3 Building Support Through Advisory Boards 4 Does the County Agent Do Anybody or Group of Farmers Any Good or Justify His Expense? 5 Live Out of the Garden, the Smoke House, and Cellar 6 Cash Is the One Article That Is Scarcest and Hardest to Get 7 The Man With the High-Producing Soil, Hen, Cow, and Sow That Kept Operating Expense Down Was Able to Return a Profit 8 Farmers Hanging On by a Mere Thread Reached Out for Benefit Payments to Save Their Farms Photographs 9 Conservation of Soil Is the Solution on Which Will Hang Future Extension Activities 10 Erosion Is One of the Major Problems Which Must Be Faced 11 Land Use Planning Not Altogether a New Idea 12 Extension Work Interrupted by Extreme Droughts and Flood 13 There Is Convenience and Satisfaction of Flipping a Switch and Getting Light 14 Shall I Sell One Team on a Four-Horse Farm and Buy a Tractor? 15 The Average Farmer Has Not Learned the Principles of Economic Uses of Wood Lots 16 Hybrid Corn Is With Us to Stay Until Something Is Found to Take Its Place 17 The Necessity of Knowing the Soil Before a Good Crop Can Be Produced 18 Growing Wheat Is One Thing and Growing Quality Wheat Is Another Photographs 19 Farmers on the Lookout for Some New or Different Crop That Offers More Promise for Fair Returns 20 Not More Cows but Fewer and Better Dairy Cows Is the Imperative Need 21 Sheep Have a Place on Most Every Farm 22 Runts and Diseased Pigs Seldom Lift the Mortgage 23 A Bushel Basket of Eggs Brings In as Much Money as 100 Bushels of Corn 24 The Life of an Extension Worker Is an Honorable Occupation and an Interesting One Photographs Part 3: Soldiers of the Soil During World War II (1940–1945) 25 Fitting the Extension Program to Wartime Conditions Has Required Some "Give and Take" 26 The County Agent Is Expected to Be a Walking Encyclopedia on Government Programs 27 Production Goals That Looked Impossible Were Reached 28 Higher Hog, Dairy, and Poultry Prices Created an Interest Like Never Before 29 For Patriotic Reasons as well as for Profit, Acreage Has Been Expanded 30 Tomatoes Have Become a Major Crop 31 The Total Increase in Home Production and Consumption Would Be a Staggering Amount of Food 32 The Armed Forces Have Taken 1,500 Men, Including Farmers. Why Wouldn't It Create Many Problems? 33 All Agricultural Workers Seeking Employment in Industrial Factories Must Have a Statement of Transfer From the County Agent 34 Farm Women and Children Will Ride the Machinery to the Desired 10 Percent Increase in Production of Meat, Milk, and Eggs Photographs 35 Explaining the Red Tape That Farmers Must Go Through to Get Electricity 36 Machinery Will Need to Be Replaced Before the Supply of Baling Wire Is Exhausted 37 Patriotic Duty to Get the Most Possible Mileage From Tires 38 Farmers Were Second Only to the Army in Needing Fuel 39 Extension Meetings Will Be Curtailed Due to Gas Rationing, Thin Tires, and Busier People 40 School Children of America! Help Save Your Fathers', Brothers', and Neighbors' Lives by Collecting Milkweed Pods 41 American Hemp Will Go On Duty Again 42 Draining the Woodlots of the Larger Oaks, Walnuts, Maples, and Sycamores 43 Think More of the Soil as a Heritage to Be Conserved and Passed On to Those Who Follow Photographs Part 4: Beyond World War II (1945–1946) 44 Boys Are Having a Hard Time Making "Fox Hole" Dreams Come True 45 Effort Must Be Directed Toward Building for the Future Photographs Epilogue Now as Never Before Farmers Have Put Into Use Many Practices Advocated by the Extension Service Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Tennessee Press Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840
Book SynopsisWhile the histories of gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting are well studied, lead has not received much scholarly attention despite a long history of both Native American and European desire for the ore. Over time, native peoples made lead ornaments in molds; French and American settlers used lead to form musket balls; red lead became an important production element for flint and crystal production; and white lead was used in making paint until the mid-twentieth century.Gray Gold aims to broaden understandings of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention to the ways that mining—and its scientific, technological, economic, cultural, and environmental features—shaped intercultural interactions and developments in the New World. Backed by remarkable original sources such as firsthand mining accounts, letters, and surveys, Mark Chambers’s study demonstrates how early mining techniques affected the culture clash between Native Americans and Europeans all the while tracking the impact increased mining had on the environment of what would become the states of Illinois and Missouri. Chambers traces the evolution of lead mining and smelting technology through pre-contact America, to the amalgamation of aboriginal processes with French colonial development, through Spain’s short occupation to the Louisiana Purchase and ultimately the technology transfer from Europe to an efficient and year-round standard of practice after American assumption. Additionally, while slavery in early American industry has been touched on in iron manufacturing and coal mining scholarship, the lead mining context sheds new light on the history of that grievous institution.Gray Gold adds significantly to the understanding of lead mining and the economic and industrial history of the United States. Chambers makes important contributions to the fields of United States history, Native American and frontier history, mining and environmental history, and the history of science and technology.
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University of Massachusetts Press The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in
Book Synopsis By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of Things attests that material culture has long been central to children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of “mechanical literacy,” competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.Trade ReviewReading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiem’s fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much children’s literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of children’s literature and the history of education—as well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiem’s creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material WorldTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 What Children Grasp The Tangible Properties of Objects Chapter 2 Moving Bodies Manual Labor and Children’s Play in Mechanical Philosophy Books Chapter 3 “The Empire of Man over Material Things” Children’s Books on Manufacturing and Trade Chapter 4 Self-Governing Machines Automata and Autonomy in Maria Edgeworth’s Fiction Chapter 5 “Knowledge That Shall Be Power in Their Hands” Radical Grammars for Working-Class Readers Conclusion William Lovett’s Case of Moveable Type Notes Index
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University of Massachusetts Press The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in
Book SynopsisBy the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of Things attests that material culture has long been central to children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of “mechanical literacy,” competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.Trade ReviewReading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiem’s fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much children’s literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of children’s literature and the history of education—as well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiem’s creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World
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University Press of Mississippi Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
Book SynopsisWhile the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of ""the happiest place on earth."" Using information from over one hundred unpublished interviews, Todd James Pierce lays down the arc of Disneyland's development from an idea to a paragon of entertainment.In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his team to develop a feasibility study for an amusement park Walt wanted to build in southern California. ""Woody"" quickly became a central figure. In 1954, Roy Disney hired him as Disneyland's first official employee, its first general manager, and appointed him vice president of Disneyland, Inc., where his authority was exceeded only by Walt. A brilliant project manager, Wood was also a con man of sorts. Previously, he had forged his university diploma. A smooth-talker drawn to Hollywood, the first general manager of Disneyland valued money over art. As relations soured between Wood and the Disney brothers, Wood found creative ways to increase his income, leveraging his position for personal fame. Eventually, tensions at the Disney park reached a boiling point, with Walt demanding he be fired.In compelling detail, Three Years in Wonderland lays out the struggles and rewards of building the world's first cinematic theme park and convincing the American public that a $17 million amusement park was the ideal place for a family vacation. The early experience of Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and C. V. Wood is one of the most captivating untold stories in the history of Hollywood. Pierce interviewed dozens of individuals who enjoyed long careers at the Walt Disney Company as well as dozens of individuals who - like C. V. Wood - helped develop the park but then left the company for good once the park was finished. Through much research and many interviews, Three Years in Wonderland offers readers a rare opportunity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and women who built the best-known theme park in the world.
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization. Trade Review"Founders of the Future establishes Spain as a vital player in late nineteenth-century discussions of modernization, industrialization, and energy. With a background in engineering and a fine ear for language, Óscar Iván Useche looks beyond well-known works to show how metaphors in popular science writing shaped attitudes toward energy, industrial production, and Spain’s possibilities." -- Laura Otis * author of Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel *"Each chapter of this finely-crafted book paints a lucid picture of the productive incorporation of industrial language and imagery into the discursive fabric of fin-de-siglo Spanish society. Researchers, historians, and scholars from diverse disciplines and theoretical backgrounds will no doubt find Useche’s book a rich source for reflection." -- Nicolás Fernández-Medina * author of Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity *"At the crossroads of industry and ideology, Useche reveals the 'semiological engine' of a paradigm shift in fin-de-siglo Spain that spans the discursive horizon of modernization and progress. Attentive to economics, education, labor practices, technology, and the environment, this study explores how coetaneous, often contradictory currents of thought confronted change through new ways of imagining a symbolic advancement that was at once liberating and threatening for Spain’s tomorrow." -- Travis Landry * editor of The Fruits of the Struggle in Diplomacy and War: Moroccan Ambassador al-Ghazzal and His Di *"Founders of the Future uncovers the new logic in Spain’s late nineteenth-century industrialization and modernization. It offers a unique perspective for mapping how different sectors of Spanish society viewed technological innovation, a 'social foundry' whence to forge regenerative approaches to Spain’s social, political, and economic problems." -- Dale Pratt * author of Signs of Science: Literature, Science and Spanish Modernity Since 1868 *Table of ContentsNote on TranslationsIntroduction: Reaching Out into the Future1 The Social Foundry2 Economy and Other Matters of State3 The Educational Engine4 Social Engineering5 Technologies of Mass Diffusion6 Industrial FootprintConclusion: The Unreachable FutureAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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NewSouth Publishing The Snowy: A History
Book SynopsisThe Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world’s engineering marvels.This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was an extraordinary engineering feat carried out over twenty-five years from 1949 to 1974, one that drove rivers through tunnels built through the Australian alps, irrigated the dry inland and generated energy for the densely populated east coast.The Snowy Mountains Scheme was also a site of post-war social engineering that helped create a diverse multicultural nation. Siobhan McHugh’s in-depth interviews with those who were there at the time reveals the human stories of migrant workers, high country locals, politicians and engineers. It also examines the difficult and dangerous aspects of such a major construction in which 121 men lost their lives. Rich and evocative, this sweeping narrative tells stories of love, endurance, tragedy and hard work during a transformative time. Includes 40 iconic images of the construction of the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Redesigned and updated, the book is available for the 70th anniversary of the launch of the Scheme. Book now includes more detail on the environmental impacts of the scheme.
£19.76
Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of Contents Sian Moore, 'Gender, the Labour Process and Women’s Mobilization in the Industrialization of the Bradford Worsted Industry'. Paul Smith, 'Unions “naked and unprotected at the altar of the common law”. Inducement of breach of contract of employment: South Wales Miners’ Federation and Others v Glamorgan Coal Co. and Others [1905]'. Appendix. Documents: Sir Charles Dilke and Charles Percy Sanger on the Trade Disputes Bills of 1903. Jim Phillips, ‘Containing, Isolating, and Defeating the Miners: The UK Cabinet Ministerial Group on Coal and the Three Phases of the 1984–1985 Strike.’ Peter Dorey, ‘The Stepping Stones Programme: The Conservative Party’s Struggle to Develop a Trade-Union Policy, 1975–1979.’ Peter Ackers, ‘The Donovan Commission (1965–1968) and the Clegg Version: An Inside View. William Brown and Jon Trevor: D. F. Schloss, Methods of Industrial Remuneration (1892). Michael Gold, ‘Missed Opportunities and Fudged Outcomes’: A Review of Consultation at Work: Regulation and Practice’. Ben Jackson, ‘Neoliberalism in Our Time: A Review Essay’. Dave Lyddon, ‘Health and Safely at Work: A Review Essay’. Book Reviews
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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.
£94.05
Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of ContentsArticlesCaroline Dick - Testing the Fabric: Prescribing Female Dress in Australian Early Living-Wage CasesAdrian Williamson - The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 ReconsideredRoger Seifert and Andrew Hambler - Wearing the Turban: The 1967–1969 Sikh Bus Drivers’ Dispute in WolverhamptonAlan Tuckman and Herman Knudsen - The Success and Failings of UK Work-Ins and Sit-Ins in the 1970s: Briant Colour Printing and Imperial TypewritersStephen Mustchin - Conflict, Mobilization, and Deindustrialization: The 1980 Gardner Strike and OccupationPeter Dorey - Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time: The Thatcher Governments’ Strategy for the Reform of Trade-Union Law, 1979–1984Symposium: The Oxford School of Industrial Relations: Fifty Years after the 1965–1968 Donovan CommissionPeter Ackers - Introduction: Who Were the Oxford School and Why Did They Matter?George Bain - A Canadian’s Reflections on the Oxford SchoolWilliam Brown - The Oxford School at DonovanJohn Edmonds - The Donovan Commission: Were We in the Trade Unions Too Short-Sighted?Sue Ferns - Changing Gender Roles and Public-Policy Perspectives since Donovan: A Trade-Union ViewDocumentTony Topham - A Difficult Childhood: The Formative Years of the Transport and General Workers’ UnionBook ReviewsPaul Edwards - Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic CapitalismRebecca Zahn - Ruth Dukes, The Labour Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour LawAbstracts
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Medieval Clothier
Book SynopsisA clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their finished cloth, selling to merchants, drapers and other traders. While many clothiers were of only modest status or "jacks of all trades", a handful of individuals amassed huge fortunes through the trade, becoming the multi-millionaires of their day. This book offers the first recent survey of this hugely important and significant trade and its practitioners, examining the whole range of clothiers across different areas of England, and exploring their impact within the industry andin their wider communities. Alongside the mechanics of the trade, it considers clothiers as entrepreneurs and early capitalists, employing workers and even establishing early factories; it also looks at their family backgrounds and their roles as patrons of church rebuilding and charitable activities. It is completed with extracts from clothiers' wills and a gazetteer of places to visit, making the book invaluable to academics, students, and local historians alike. JOHN S. LEE is a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.Trade Review[A] very welcome...informed, informative and up-to-date study...This is an excellent book, not only for those interested in clothiers, but also for anyone interested in the broad development of English textile history. * TEXTILE HISTORY *The book is accessible to a wide range of readers. A glossary is provided for those less familiar with cloth making, while detailed appendices will interest experts. A gazetteer of surviving buildings can be used by local historians. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Not only eminently readable but also well-researched. * THE RICARDIAN *[E]minently accessible . . . The work is a valuable read for any historian of material culture, or anyone looking to see how one industry functioned during the politically turbulent times of the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, and the reigns of the early Tudors. * COMITATUS *The amount of evidence presented in this book is staggering. Almost every page contains lucid examples drawn from an array of sources. The book is also immaculately written, with a richness of narrative sure to be appreciated by historians as well as the precision of argument valued by the more economically inclined. What it offers is a one-stop shop for a trade central to the medieval economy. It should serve as the entry point for researchers and students for years to come. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Anyone seeking a wide-ranging and well-informed historical account of late medieval English cloth-making will find it here. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *An excellent start to this new series on medieval workers [and] a very worthwhile project.that will be of particular interest to economic and social historians and students, as well as those interested in regional and local history. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *It is surprising that we have had to wait so long for someone to tackle the clothiers . . . but it was worth the wait. John Lee has soaked up all the relevant literature, plus added his own discoveries from wills, chancery documents, and regional archives, to produce a readable, thorough, and wide-ranging survey. * MEDIEVAL CLOTHING & TEXTILES *The Medieval Clothier is an excellent first volume in Boydell's new series Working in the Middle Ages. . . . [It] is a highly successful book that provides an interesting, compelling and at all times authoritative survey of one of the most important trades in late medieval England, making it a must read for students and scholars alike. * EH.NET *The book may be aimed primarily at medievalists with interests in economic history, particularly in trade and taxation, and at those who study the history of entrepreneurship and social history, but the general reader will also be delighted by this appealing, beautifully organized book. * BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW *Lee's book is an excellent example of clear and accessible research and synthesis and informs a key aspect of the debate on the role of small towns in early modern Europe. * URBAN HISTORY *Provides an interesting, accessible and well-referenced survey. * ESSEX JOURNAL *A very useful account...[It] can be recommended as an up to date introduction to the cloth trade in mediaeval England and is another impressive addition to the Boydell catalogue. * EAST YORKSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY *Lee's careful and thorough analysis based upon contemporary sources reveals the lasting impact a single profession can exert over national and related regional economies. Illustrations and useful definitions clarify terms for those unfamiliar with textiles and their processing. This volume represents a significant contribution to late medieval economic, industrial, social, and material culture studies. -- Karin J. Bohleke * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsIntroduction Making cloth Marketing cloth Identifying Clothiers Clothiers and government Clothiers in society Famous clothiers Conclusion Appendix 1: Cloths taxed by county Appendix 2: Cloths taxed by locality Appendix 3: Cloth types, as defined by statute in 1552 Appendix 4: Will of Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall Appendix 5: Will of Thomas Spring III of Lavenham Appendix 6: Will of John Smallwood the elder alias John Winchecombe I of Newbury Appendix 7: Will of William Stumpe of Malmesbury Gazetteer of surviving buildings Glossary Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives
Book SynopsisThis is an original study of the connected lives of two important socialists, Tom Mann (1856-1941) and Robert Samuel ‘Bob’ Ross (1873-1931). Born in Britain, Mann travelled the globe as a tireless socialist organiser and propagandist who met Ross in the course of his political work in Australia. They then worked closely together as labour editors, educators, trade unionists and socialists in Australia and New Zealand between 1902 and 1913. Thereafter, they continued regularly to correspond with one another and other socialists in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the Pacific Rim. Based upon extensive research into neglected primary and secondary sources in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and related places, this book explores the careers and lives of Mann and Ross as paired transnational radicals, as leaders who crossed national and other boundaries in order to promote their socialism. It situates them within the neglected English-speaking and even global radical worlds of the later nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, a period that constituted an early phase of globalisation. Breaking new ground in moving beyond the national focus which has dominated much of the relevant history, this book highlights both the importance of Mann’s and Ross’s transnational endeavours, attachments and identities and the ways in which these interacted with their national, sub-national and international spheres of activity, striking a chord with a wide variety of radicals seeking change in today’s globalised world.Trade ReviewReviews 'Conceptually exciting and at the cutting edge of labour historiography, the writing and research are of a high standard.' Dr Emmet O'Conner, The University of Ulster'Transnational Radicalism pushes at the methodological boundaries of both transnational labour history and biography. This considerable intellectual achievement illustrates how transnational or global labour history imposes considerable standards of erudition, research in multiple archival collections, and conceptual sophistication upon its practitioners.' Matt Perry, Labour History Review'This is a marvellous example of transnational labour history demonstrating how limiting a national perspective is, for it has to ignore the manifold connections and ties that went across national borders, zig-zagged in complex and contradictory ways and ultimately informed the very fabric of a genuinely transnational socialist movement.' Stefan Berger, Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements'The first chapter on the "strengths, weaknesses, promise and pitfalls" (36) of the turn to transnational history, and concomitant comparative and global worlds is a strength of this book and will be essential reading for historians working in the area.' Melanie Nolan, Labour/Le TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Transnational ContextIntroduction1. Issues and Debates2. The Transnational World of Mann and RossII SocialismIntroduction3. What Kind of Socialism?4. Unfolding Differences, Enduring SimilaritiesIII Womanhood, Whiteness and WarIntroduction5. ‘True Womanhood’6. Race and Whiteness7. World War I and its AftermathConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of Contents Jean Jenkins - Hands No Longer Wanted: Closure and the Moral Economy of Protest, Treorchy, South Wales Closure Paul Smith - The Law behind the Law: Rookes v. Barnard [1964], the Common Law and the Right to Strike The Trade Disputes Act 1965 Otto Kahn Freund - Rookes v. Barnard — and After Charles McGuire - ‘Going for the Jugular’: The Steelworkers’ Banner and the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike in Britain Michael Gold - ‘A Clear and Honest Understanding’: Alan Fox and the Origins and Implications of Radical Pluralism William Brown - Introduction to Alan Fox, ‘Corporatism and Industrial Democracy’ Alan Fox - Corporatism and Industrial Democracy: The Social Origins of Present Forms and Methods in Britain and Germany Dave Lyddon - Writing Trade Union History: The Case of the National Union of Public Employees Book Reviews
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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.
£94.05
Liverpool University Press Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.Trade ReviewReviews 'A thoroughly researched and original study that makes a valuable contribution on an important and under-researched subject.'Professor David Howell, University of York'Thomas Beaumont’s meticulous new book... not only stands as the first monograph-length study of communist railway trade unionism, but also offers a complex and nuanced portrait of interwar French communism more broadly... [Fellow Travellers] deserves to be read widely by historians of France, labour, and the left alike.'Robert W. Lewis, Labour'Fellow Travellers is a clearly written and well-researched book. Beaumont has consulted government, police, PCF, and union records both to fill a significant gap in our knowledge of the French trade union movement and French Communism and to provide a sophisticated analysis of the culture of railway trade unionism.' Matt Perry, Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Railway Workers at WarChapter 2: Railway Workers and the ‘Après Guerre’Chapter 3: Railway Workers and the Communist ChoiceChapter 4: StabilisationChapter 5: International ConnectionsChapter 6: ‘Hostile Participants’: Communists and Railway Industrial Relations in the Class against Class era, 1928-1934Chapter 7: Railway Workers and the Popular Front: Victory to Defeat, 1936-1939ConclusionBibliography
£36.18
Liverpool University Press James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and
Book SynopsisJames Watt (1736-1819) was a pivotal figure of the Industrial Revolution. His career as a scientific instrument maker, inventor and engineer was developed in Scotland, his land of birth. His subsequent national and international significance as a scientist, technologist and businessman was formed in the Birmingham area. There, his partnership with Matthew Boulton and the intellectual and personal support of other members of the Lunar Society network, such as Erasmus Darwin, James Keir, William Small and Josiah Wedgwood, enabled him to translate his improvements in steam technology into efficient machines. His pumping and rotative steam engines represent a summit of technological achievement in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This is the traditional picture of James Watt. After his death, his surviving son, James Watt junior projected his father’s image through commissioning sculptures, medals, paintings and biographies which celebrated his reputation as a ‘great man’ of the Industrial Revolution. In popular historical understanding Watt has also become a hero of modernity, but the context in which he operated and the roles of others in shaping his ideas have been downplayed. This book explores new aspects of his work and evaluates him in his locational, family, social and intellectual contexts.Trade ReviewReviews 'High quality chapters, convincingly argued and clearly written, offering new insights into Watt's life and work.’Professor Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol‘Two pivotal chapters demonstrate the close and strategic attention that Watt paid to his extensive correspondence.’ Christine MacLeod, Midland History 'Distinguished investigators and newer researchers together illustrate the state of the field concerning James Watt. Interesting and definitive… this book [is] indispensable for buff and researcher alike.'Barbara Hahn, English Historical Review'This book [is] indispensable for buff and researcher alike.' Barbara Hahn, English Historical Review
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Liverpool University Press Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man
Book SynopsisDescribed as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain, Jimmy’s story is an epic one; from a poverty-stricken background in Govan, Glasgow, he became a communist at a young age, leading a national strike of engineering apprentices while only twenty, before being thrown into the national limelight as the leading spokesperson for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In in 1971-2. Disillusioned with communism he left the Party for Labour and the centre-left before leaving them disenchanted with New Labour to join the Scottish National Party. This enlightening book looks at Jimmy’s political journey from Communism, to Labourism, and ultimately to Nationalism (a political life in three acts), which not only speaks of the complexities of left politics after 1945, but also illuminates our understanding of institutions and social change in post-war Britain by showing how they were understood and negotiated by one inspirational individual.Trade Review'The book is deeply researched and develops a sensitive and revealing portrayal of the man and, no less important, his social and political background [...] Probably better than any other work it brings out the richness and diversity of working-class culture on Clydeside. Its two authors are particularly well qualified to do so. Alan McKinlay brings an unrivalled understanding of workplace relations in the West of Scotland and William Knox an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Scottish labour movement.' John Foster, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History 'The new biography of Jimmy Reid has been a long time in the gestation but it's well worth the wait [...] Though an academic work, it's an easy but fascinating read, as well as informative and thought-provoking.' Kenny MacAskill, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History 'William Knox and Alan McKinlay’s book provides an overdue and much-needed scholarly companion to the repertoires of folk-history that sustain Jimmy Reid’s place in Scotland’s popular historical consciousness.' Rory Scothorne, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History ‘The life of Reid has many insights and stories to be shared, as the authors’ indicate, noting how ‘Reid never stopped battling against poverty and inequality’ and that ‘he was in individual, an outsider, a man of restless intellect’ Paul Griffin, Journal of Contemporary History'The book is a welcome addition to a recent spate of biographies of leading communists that provide an important and useful addition to our knowledge of such leading cadres, as well as helping to restore some balance in the flow of materials from the struggles in which the biographical subjects were leading players.'Roger Seifert, Labour History Review'Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-Built Man addresses many of the enigmas in this complex life. [...] This biography is not just a welcome examination and reflection on the life of Jimmy Reid, but also on the UCS work-in as well as Scottish and UK politics of the period.' Alan Tuckman, The Spokesman Journal'Knox and McKinlay are well-qualified as [Reid's] biographers. Their lengthy scholarly partnership has focused on the workplace politics of Reid’s tribe: skilled, male, Scottish engineering workers and trade unionists. Their research has enriched understanding, among various issues, of the ‘culture clash’ between the expectations and practices of Scottish engineering workers and those of the dozens of US multinational firms that operated as major employers in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1980s.' Jim Phillips, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas'This biography has to be part of every library for those with an interest in British industrial and shipbuilding history.' Fred M. Walker, The Mariner's MirrorTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Apprenticeship4. Cadre5. Work-in6. Leaving7. Strike8. Re-bornBibliographyIndex
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